Apple has reportedly filed a new timetable for construction of its 'Spaceship' campus, due to delays in the planning phase.

The company has supposedly run into delays in creating an environmental impact report for Cupertino, pushing the original time frame of late 2012 to June 2013. The report not only deals with traffic, noise and air quality, it allows residents to have their say as well, which is obviously not the area Apple excels in.

Initially planned to open in 2015, the completion date of the campus has reportedly been pushed back to 2016, since construction wouldn't start until 2014 in this case. The campus will be a massive building and quite a construction feat as well, employing up 12,000 employees once it's ready.

Apple also wants to generate electricity on site, most likely with solar panels. [Perhaps they’ve found a way of turning broken dreams into juice? Ed]

It seems slightly odd, that almost nine months after Intel launched their first cell phone back at CES that most Intel employees are not carrying them around at IDF. Even at the David Perlmutter's keynote on Tuesday, it was touted that Intel had already launched phones with five partners including Gigabyte, Lenovo, and ZTE. Intel partnered very closely with Gigabyte to design and produce the AZ210, which debuted with Android 2.3 (Gingerbread). The phone supports most GSM based networks through WCDMA/UMTS/HSPA, HSPA+, EDGE/GPRS bands.

It is slightly odd that so far down the line after the initial launch of the Intel powered cell phones back in January, that you still see Intel's press relations teams running around with Qualcomm powered Blackberries, ARM-powered Android devices, or even Apple's iPhone. At this point in time, it would almost be like an Intel employees being issued AMD powered notebooks.

At the launch of Windows Phone 7, Microsoft decided that as part of its push to get the phones into as many hands as possible, that all 90,000 of their employees would be getting one device for free. Google did the same when they launched the original Nexus phone. Research in Motion employees all carry Blackberries as well. I think today you would be hard pressed to find any employee on the Apple campus with a cellular device other than an iPhone.

Two scenarios are presenting themselves at this point. One is that Intel doesn't believe their partners are putting out quality devices which will suit the needs of their employees, and the other is that they aren't confident enough in the power or performance of the Medfield based parts. We will have to wait until next week for the joint Intel / Motorla press conference in London to see if the introduction from a new partner will be enough to encourage support of their employee base.

So the question is to all Intel employees would be what cell phone is in your pocket?

Microsoft is eager to speak with former employees of OnLive. That is the message the company is communicating and they will be hosting a “networking mixer” on August 28th at their Mountain View, California location.

According to sources, the company is looking to add players in a number of areas. Most of the positions would be in developing products and services for the Xbox brand and Kinect.

After OnLive’s transition, a number of former OnLive employees have been hired back by the new company, and apparently the company is hopeful that they might be able to hire back even more former employees. That said, a number of OnLive former employees have lashed out about the entire mess and how it was handled. In our opinion, the backlash is understandable.

An investigation by the US Federal Communications Commission’s has revealed that Google’s staff knew of WiFi snooping.

According to the report, the engineer who wrote the program told at least two other colleagues. While the Street View team members were unaware of this, one of the two is a senior manager in the company.

The program had the capability to collect data from unsecured networks. The report claims that the engineer" intended to collect, store and review payload data for possible use in other Google projects." The collection of data took place between 2008 and 2010 when Google was taking photos from its Street View car.

Google was fined $25,000 for obstructing FCC's investigation but it was not found guilty of breaking the law. The company said it wants to put the matter behind them.

Foxconn announced on Thursday that it sat down and resolvedthe dispute with its workers from Wuhan, China. The company claims that the protest involved 150 of 32,000 workers at the campus, some of which threatened the company with suicide.

Foxcon said that although the dispute was resolved peacefully, 45 workers resigned. It refused to provide more details but, apparently, one worker claims that he was promised additional compensation.

Some of the workers were disgruntled over forced moves from Shenzen to Wuhan, latter of which is said to have much worse working conditions. One of these workers claims that they were promised $450 a month and overtime pay, ultimately receiving less than a third of this amount.

You may recall that Foxconn was hit by a wave of suicides in its plants in China. After showing enviable ingenuity and compassion by putting up safety nets, the company resorted to other means such as psychiatry and talking to its workers. It is said that this is a result of pressure applied by Apple and other clients.

In yet another move that shows it cares, Foxconn began investing in robots. The company also moved some of its production to central and western China as this region has lower labor costs.

Foxconn said: “The welfare of our employees is our top priority, and we are committed to ensuring that all employees are treated fairly and that their rights are fully protected.” Perhaps they should’ve painted hearts on their safety nets, as it would make a much better statement of their generous benevolence.

Software giant, Microsoft has patented a machine that can monitor the behavior of employees while also assigning positive or negative scores to everything they do.

According to GeekWire, the patent send the IT department a flag when someone who repeatedly cuts off colleagues during conversations, or warns when a supervisor who repeatedly bugs underlings during their lunch break. Such scoring would presumably rely upon subjective criteria set by the employer regarding what counts as “good” or “bad” work habits.

The range of possible monitored behaviours includes word phrases, body gestures, and mannerisms “such as wearing dark glasses in a video conference” or “wearing unacceptable clothing to a business meeting”. If Microsoft’s idea is adopted then workplace surveillance another step forward by creating software capable of analysing those human behaviours.

The idea is that workers might benefit from such monitoring software by getting feedback about their behaviour. In our experience workers want to be left alone and it is not helpful to point out what people do wrong.

HP has given its employees first refusal on the last ever batch of TouchPad webOS-powered tablets, and demand has been high enough to take the company's website out.

HP's Employee Purchase Programme site which is a staff-only service where discounted goods can be procured has been bogged down by demand. An HP staffer who leaked to webOSroundup, said it took almost three hours to place an order for a single TouchPad once news broke of their availability. Many users were left with error messages complaining of high traffic and were unable to order their discount tablets at all.

It seems unlikely that any of the limited production run which was designed to dispose of unused parts in its inventory will make it out into the channel for retail sale.

Jobs' Mob has come up with a novel method of claiming that it invented everything. In amongst the ITC court papers in the recent HTC versus Apple spat is an argument which claims that Andy Rubin got inspiration for Android framework while working at Apple, hence infringing an Apple API patent.

This means that Android started at Apple, just by virtue of the fact that one of its former employees happened to have invented it. If this logic was applied, it would mean that it did not matter where an employee worked in their life all their inventions would be legally owned by the first company they worked for.

Apple told the ITC that Android and Rubin's relevant background does not start with his work at General Magic or Danger in the mid-1990s. Rubin began his career at Apple in the early 1990s and worked as a low-level engineer specifically reporting to the inventors of the '263 [realtime API] patent at the exact time their invention was being conceived and developed. It is therefore no wonder that the infringing Android platform used the claimed subsystem approach of the '263 patent that allows for flexibility of design and enables the platform to be "highly customizable and expandable".

Now if people said that Apple invented Android, they would put them away. But Apple is claiming that Rubin's superiors at Apple were the inventors of that realtime API patent and he worked for them at the very time they made that invention. If the ITC buys this argument then the whole patent system will collapse as many people in the tech industry go on to invent things for other companies. Most people are expected to have learnt something from working in a company, and that is what job experience is all about. However Apple is is one of the few companies that believes it owns its employee's ideas long after they have left the company.

Activision will be making some changes as the company announced its numbers. Despite profits being up, the company will be realigning some things, which will result in a loss of about 500 jobs as the company makes some changes, with a heavy emphasis going forward on their electronic delivery and subscription-based services.

That is not all that we learned. Activision will not be releasing any music or skateboarding games during 2011. The new True Crime: Hong Kong game has also apparently been canned, and the Guitar Hero or music development teams are being dissolved. The news of no Tony Hawk title during 2011 marks the first time since 1999 that a new title has not arrived in the franchise.

As for what we can expect, look for a lot more downloadable content from Activision, as company was able to move 1.4 million downloads of the latest Call of Duty map pack in the first 24 hours. Also look for two releases from Blizzard, which are Diablo 3 and Heart of the Swarm (which is the first add-on pack for Starcraft 2).

Activision does not currently look for these titles to arrive this year, but instead it is expecting them in 2012. Activision will continue to invest heavily in the Call of Duty projects that the company continues to work on, which includes some sort of Call of Duty-based subscription title.

Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop recently sent Nokia employees a memo admittedly trying to wake the company up from its slumber. It is no secret that Nokia, the company once heralded for mobile phone innovations, has fallen behind significantly in the past years.

We must admit, for a CEO he seems quite poetic as he drew a parallel between Nokia and a man standing on a burning oil platform. The memo reads: "He could stand on the platform, and inevitably be consumed by the burning flames. Or, he could plunge 30 meters in to the freezing waters. The man was standing upon a burning platform, and he needed to make a choice." For all you soap opera lovers out there, worry not as the man survived – which is exactly what Elop is trying to do with Nokia.

However, it was not all stories as Elop reminded the company employees that Nokia’s competitors have wasted no time in chewing of large chunks of Nokia’s share. He pointed out that Apple’s $300+ segment was 25 percent in 2008, soaring to 61 percent by Q4 2010. Elop noted that since the iPhone launched, Nokia hasn’t managed to make a product “that is close to [Apple’s iPhone] experience.”

Elop also had many a good thing to say about Android, saying amongst other things that the platform is fast approaching the sub-€100 segment. “Android came on the scene just over 2 years ago, and this week they took our leadership position in smartphone volumes. Unbelievable.”, Elop said.

Elop said that while innovation was always a part of Nokia, the company is not reaching the market fast enough. He went on pouring cold water on MeeGo, saying that at this rate Nokia might have only one MeeGo product in the market by end of 2011. He also addressed Symbian, saying it is:” an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements, leading to slowness in product development and also creating a disadvantage when we seek to take advantage of new hardware platforms.”

Elop announced the new company strategy for February 11, rallying all employees to contribute to Nokia’s return to former glory. Our personal favorite part of the memo was when Elop said:”In the meantime, we've lost market share, we've lost mind share and we've lost time.”

All in all, we wish Elop and Nokia good luck, because they sure will need it. You can read more here, where you'll find the memo in full.